The notary's nose;

CHAPTER VI.
THE HISTORY OF A PAIR OF SPECTACLES,
AND THE CONSEQUENCES OF A COLD IN
THE HEAD.
NEVER did any preacher, never did
Bossuet or Fenelon, never did Massillon
or Flechier, never did M. Mermilliod himself dispense from his pulpit eloquence
mightier, and at the same time more alluring, than did M. Alfred l'Ambert at the
bedside of Romagne. First he appealed
to the reason; then to the conscience, and.
finally to the heart of his patient. He
called into play arguments both sacred
and profane-cited Holy Writ, and the
philosophers. He was powerful and
gentle, severe and paternal, logical, caressing, and even jocular. He proved that